The well, which was drilled 33 kilometres northeast of the discovery well on Johan Sverdrup in the central North Sea and about 100 kilometres west of Stavanger, encountered a 24-metre total gas column in the Utsira formation.

The find was deemed “excellent reservoir quality”.

Preliminary calculations of the size of the discovery are between 1.5 and 4 billion standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents.

The wildcat was the first well drilled under production licence 674 BS.